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@title=LA GUERRA - The Colombian Civil War 1974 to 2002, v. 1.01


^^Please see the readme file to know how to operate
^^the multiple events files of this scenario.
^^The scenario is only playable as the FARC Movement, 
^^Autodefensas and the Government.


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  In 1974, the sword of the South American liberator, Simn Bolvar, was 
stolen by a leftist guerilla group in Colombia. This event was only one 
in a long chain of events that led to the intensification of the longest 
civil war of the 20th century - The Colombian Civil War.
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  From 1948 to 1958, La Violencia - a bloody civil war - had raged the South 
American country, and torn it to pieces. When the war ended, Communists had 
established themselves all over the country, and had proclaimed 7 "independent 
republics". When the political union of the liberals and the conservatives 
that followed La Violencia fell in the 1964 elections, a large-scale offensive 
was initiated by the new Colombian government. It destroyed most of the 
Communist strongpoints, but many had escaped. These formed numerous new 
guerilla groups. On of these groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of 
Colombia (FARC), was to grow into a huge and dangerous rebel group.
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  By 1974, when a new offensive was initiated under the new Michelsen 
administration these groups had achieved a stable and firm position in 
the country.
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  Throughout the rural and highland areas of Colombia, the most important 
crop had for a long time been coca and opium poppies. This agriculture had 
led to the creation of powerful drug cartels, who in turn financed paramilitaries 
(Autodefensas) to protect their business against the Communist rebels in the 
country.
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  To this date, neither the Communists, the government, nor the paramilitaries 
have been defeated - and the conflict has only grown more desperate.